Underwater Photography: World Beneath Deep Seas
Underwater images are considered one of the most thrilling and challenging pictures of photography. Owing to the challenge and difficulty level, underwater photography requires various techniques and equipments.
Fish, marine animals, mammals, underwater landscape, are most common subjects for photographers. Underwater photography involves imagination and skill of the picture.
Wide Angle photography is used to take images of large marine life such as whales, larger reefs, and sharks. By using wide lens the photographer is able to move closer towards their subject.
Macro is used for taking photograph of extremely small objects. Most underwater digital camera has a macro setting which can quickly bring the image into focus.
Ambient Light: It uses the natural sunlight when taking an image; the deeper you travel in the water the darker image you will get.
Marine portraits are most popular form of underwater photography.
The prime day light hours is the best time to capture photographs underwater as this is the time when sunlight reflects into the water. One of the most important aspects of underwater photography is lighting, without light your image will appear dark. So most of the digital cameras come with a standard flash that will bring color to your image.
Safety should be considered when a photographer is capturing photographs underwater. Always wear proper gear, pay attention to oxygen levels, be aware of your surroundings, and be calm until you reach towards the surface.
Underwater photographers agree that Maldives is the best place in the world for fish photography. Always use external flash to capture photos because it will always focus to your subject. Never use digital zoom for any underwater photography shot especially for landscape underwater photography.
Before doing anything else decide what you want to achieve for your best underwater photographs, definitely as you will need essential equipments such as Camera Housing, Flash guns, Strobes, lighting, Lenses, digital camera and many more. Always make sure that you follow the instruction guide carefully on how to open camera housing, seal and clean it. This will save your camera housing from wrecking and flooding and if there is some sort of leakage then hold your camera with lens pointing down and do a safe normal ascent.
Clean your camera with fresh water, rinse all equipments after each dive, check all accessible O rings once in a day, and keep them soft and elastic. Try to check your all equipments by a specialist at least once in a year.
Underwater photography unleashes the beautiful world beneath the deep seas. Its an altogether stunning experience to capture this enthralling world in your camera.
